Search for a Gold Coast Course
Job Demand: High
Average weekly wage: $2,500
Where you could work:
Hospitals - Gold Coast University Hospital, Ramsay Health
Medical Centres
Private Practice
Medical Practitioners do the following tasks:
- Conducting examinations and questioning patients to determine the nature of disorders and illnesses, and recording patients' medical information
- Ordering laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures, and interpreting findings to assist in diagnosis
- Providing overall care for patients, and prescribing and administering treatments, medications and other remedial measures
- Monitoring patients' progress and response to treatment
- Advising on diet, exercise and other habits which aid prevention and treatment of disease and disorders
- Referring patients to, and exchanging medical information with, specialist Medical Practitioners
- Reporting births, deaths and notifiable diseases to government authorities
- Arranging the admission of patients to hospitals